Monday, December 27, 2010

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Today's News from TheEagle.com

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Cuddling up with a furry friend

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:06 PM PST

Danielle Chapman, 5, snuggles against the cold with her aunt's kitten Piper outside her home in College Station Sunday.

B-CS mixed about sales

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:06 PM PST

Local retailers and shoppers had mixed thoughts about the economic recovery on Sunday, the day after Christmas, which is overshadowed only by the consumer spectacle of the day following Thanksgiving. What do they have in common? Both consistently dr ...

A day in the life of a cop

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:06 PM PST

By 6 p.m. on any given work day, most people are preparing tasks for the next day or already left the office. That's just about the time when Bryan Officer Ryan Hodson clocks in and heads to a shift briefing led by Sgt. Kenny Meadors or Sgt. Kyle Ha ...

Winter storm hampers travelers

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:00 PM PST

NEW YORK -- A powerful winter storm lay a snow blanket from the South to the Northeast on Sunday, turning roads slick, stranding thousands of airline, train and bus passengers and putting a chill in retailers' day-after-Christmas sales.Up to 20 inche ...

Thousands fear hunger after bombing

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST

KHAR, Pakistan -- Some 300,000 desperately poor villagers impoverished by fighting in Pakistan's tribal belt are scrambling to feed themselves after a female suicide bomber killed 45 people outside a World Food Program food distribution center, trigg ...

Shift in focus may cost GOP some votes

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:02 PM PST

WASHINGTON -- The end of the year means a turnover of House control from Democratic to Republican and, with it, Congress' approach to immigration. In a matter of weeks, Congress will go from trying to help young, illegal immigrants become legal to de ...

Portugal's drug policy pays off; U.S. watching closely

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:02 PM PST

LISBON, Portugal -- These days, Casal Ventoso is an ordinary blue-collar community -- mothers push baby strollers, men smoke outside cafes, buses chug up and down the cobbled main street. Ten years ago, the Lisbon neighborhood was a hellhole, a "dru ...

2010 tough for the concert industry

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST

LOS ANGELES -- Concertgoers sick of ballooning ticket prices should have some extra pocket change to rattle with their rock 'n' roll in the new year.2010 was tough for the concert business as high prices kept many fans at home. Promoters now say they ...

Stuck freighter free with help of 7 tugs

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:00 PM PST

GROSSE ILE, Mich. -- Seven tugboats succeeded Sunday in unsticking a 579-foot coal-hauling Great Lakes freighter that was grounded for two days in the Detroit River south of Detroit.The McKee Sons ran aground Friday near Grosse Ile while trying to do ...

Octomom faces eviction from Southern California home

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:00 PM PST

LOS ANGELES -- The man who sold his Southern California home to "Octomom" Nadya Suleman said Sunday that he's going ahead with eviction proceedings because she hasn't made a long overdue $450,000 payment.Amer Haddadin said he'll evict Suleman if she ...

S. Korea vows retaliation if North attacks again

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST

SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's president vowed a relentless retaliation against North Korea if provoked again, saying Monday he is not afraid of a war with the communist North.The two Koreas have ramped up their rhetoric since North Korea shelle ...

NATO service member killed by bomb in Afghanistan

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:01 PM PST

KABUL, Afghanistan -- NATO says one of its service members has been killed in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan. A coalition statement said the person was killed Monday. It provided no other details. So far, 697 NATO service members have bee ...

Chavez uses decree for disaster fund in Venezuela

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:02 PM PST

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday said he was signing his first decree under new powers granted to him by congress to create a fund for housing reconstruction after devastating floods and landslides.The National Assembl ...

Thousands rally in Moscow against ethnic violence

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:02 PM PST

MOSCOW -- Several thousand people rallied Sunday in Moscow to protest the ethnic clashes that have rocked Russia, holding posters reading "Fascists disgrace Russia" and chanting "No to Fascism!"The rally in downtown Moscow was organized by civil grou ...

Quake shakes New Zealand, causing minor damage

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:02 PM PST

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Masonry and glass rained down near post-Christmas shoppers as a magnitude 4.9 earthquake rocked Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island on Sunday.No one was injured, but at least 20 buildings in the city's center were da ...

Pomegranate Juice Stops the Spread of Cancer

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 05:48 PM PST

(Ivanhoe Newswire) Pomegranate juice components may inhibit the movement of cancer cells and weaken their attraction to a chemical signal that has been shown to promote the metastasis of prostate cancer to bone, according to this study. Researcher ...

Fixing Hearts: No Operation Needed

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 05:48 PM PST

PHILADELPHIA (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- For patients with congenital heart defects, treatment may no longer include open-heart surgery and the long recovery that goes with it.  Doctors are now using a minimally invasive approach to replace heart val ...

American Heart Association New Recommendations

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 05:48 PM PST

(Ivanhoe Newswire) The American Heart Association's new recommendations say that strictly controlling the heart rate of patients with atrial fibrillation provides no advantage over more lenient heart rate control. Atrial fibrillation is an irregul ...

A Bad Night's Sleep & Heart Disease

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 05:46 PM PST

(Ivanhoe Newswire) People who have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a sleep disorder associated with obesity, have more non-calcified or "bad" plaque in their coronary arteries, according to this study. "Our study reveals that individuals with obstru ...

Fixing Hearts: No Operation Needed - Research Summary

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 05:49 PM PST

BACKGROUND: Congenital Heart Defects are the most common kind of birth defect, present in about 1 million people in the U.S. They are structural malformations of the heart that develop early in fetal development, and affect interior walls, valves, a ...

Religion's "Secret Ingredient" Makes People Happier

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 05:46 PM PST

(Ivanhoe Newswire) The positive correlation between a person being religious and living a satisfactory life has long been known, but this study reveals religion's "secret ingredient" that makes people happier. "Our study offers compelling evidence ...

Letters for December 27

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:05 PM PST

Are taxes at the root of Wellborn unhappiness? There once was a man from the Nantucket subdivision who told me he would move were College Station to annex his home. When I asked why, he said he did not want to pay College Station taxes. Is th ...

New Insight into Weight Loss

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 05:45 PM PST

(Ivanhoe Newswire) New weight loss supplements and exercises are released every day, but this novel weight-loss therapy identifies cells that can be triggered to transform white storage fat cells into brown energy burning fat cells. "This finding ...

LaBarbera, Turris send Coyotes past Stars

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 01:54 PM PST

DALLAS -- Jason LaBarbera stopped 29 shots for his fifth career shutout, Kyle Turris scored in the second period, and the Phoenix Coyotes beat the Dallas Stars 1-0 on Sunday night. LaBarbera was making his fifth straight start in place of Coyotes No ...

Parker, Spurs top Wizards

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 01:53 PM PST

SAN ANTONIO -- Tony Parker and the NBA-leading San Antonio Spurs pushed aside the short-handed Washington Wizards before turning their attention to the Los Angeles Lakers. Parker had 20 points, 14 assists and six rebounds to help the Spurs beat the ...

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